70-210 - Dynamic volume Install

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Dynamic volume Install

trebor

2001-03-03, 4:17 pm

I have come across the following sentence in the Troytec Study Guide. But somehow it isn't "clicking" yet. I would appreciate a few words that might clear it up.

Here it is:
"When installing Windows 2000, if a dynamic volume is created from unallocated space on a dynamic disk, Windows 2000 cannot be installed on that volume."

Or maybe it is really simple. That unallocated = unformatted, then of coarse you couldn't install.

Please what does that sentence mean?

trebor

2001-03-03, 5:06 pm

Trebor, these may help explain:

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet...onfigdy.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet...sopch01.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet...estperf.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet...hapt-19.asp

Ok so this might be information overkill but hey "information is POWER"

Yeti the Verbose

2001-03-04, 8:49 am

That's it Yeti. Now it is "clicking". Using those URLs I found the exact quote. Here it is if anyone is interested.

"When installing Windows 2000 If a dynamic volume is created from unallocated space on a dynamic disk, you cannot install Windows 2000 on that volume.

The setup limitation occurs because Windows 2000 Setup uses BIOS calls that only recognize volumes listed in the partition table. Only basic disk partitions, as well as simple and mirrored volumes of dynamic disks that were upgraded from basic disk partitions, appear in the partition table. Dynamic disk does not use the partition table to manage its volumes, so new dynamic volumes are not registered in the partition table as they are created. Windows 2000 must be installed on a volume that is correctly represented in the partition table. "

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/wi...kit/sopch01.asp

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